'Bride Schools' Prep Women for Mail-Order Marriages

posted by Jenn Gidman, Newser Staff
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2 years ago

(NEWSER) – You don’t necessarily have to speak the same language as your husband to be a mail-order bride in South Korea—just the language of love. Unfortunately, many of the marriages arranged that way there don’t handle Cupid’s vernacular well, either, so the South Korean government is cracking down on the process by imposing regulations and setting up "bride schools" in Vietnam, reports the Washington Post. These schools offer one- or three-day courses that teach blushing brides-to-be everything from how to speak Korean to subway etiquette to how much they should kowtow to their mothers-in-law.